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Man who killed Jeffrey Dahmer in prison reveals why he did it

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Published 16:35 1 Feb 2025 GMT

Man who killed Jeffrey Dahmer in prison reveals why he did it

Christopher Scarver was left alone with Jeffrey Dahmer without any shackles on when he confronted him about his wicked crimes

Joe Yates

Joe Yates

The inmate who killed cannibalistic serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer has explained his motives behind doing so.

Despite confessing to murdering the 34-year-old, Christopher Scarver believes he may have been set up by prison guards as he was left alone with the Milwaukee man.

In February 1992, Dahmer was sentenced to 16 life terms in prison following his conviction of brutally murdering 17 men and boys, between 1978 and 1991 - and even admitting to have eaten the flesh of his victims.

However, just two years into his sentence at Columbia Correctional Facility, in Wisconsin, he was bludgeoned to death by Scarver - who was just 25 at the time.

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Scarver had never interacted with Dahmer and had only watched him from afar, but had grown 'fiercely disgusted' by his crimes, having kept a newspaper article about him in his pocket which detailed how Dahmer dismembered and sometimes ate his victims.

Things escalated quickly on November 28, 1994, when Dahmer angered Scarver while he and a third inmate called Jesse Anderson were in the prison’s gym.

A photo of Christopher Scarver with his son. (
CNN)

The three of them were then led to clean the bathrooms by prison officers, but without handcuffs on, and left to carry out their duties.

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Scarver explained that he had grabbed a mop and was filling a bucket up with water when he felt a prod on his back.

“I turned around, and [Dahmer] and Jesse were kind of laughing under their breath,” a 45-year-old Scarver told the New York Post back in 2015.

“I looked right into their eyes, and I couldn’t tell which had done it.”

When they finished and went their separate ways, Scarver followed Dahmer who was heading to the locker room, and having picked up a 20-inch metal bar that weighed five pounds from the gym, he confronted the serial killer with his newspaper article.

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“I asked him if he did those things ’cause I was fiercely disgusted. He was shocked. Yes, he was," Scarver explained.

Jeffrey Dahmer's mugshot. (
Milwaukee Police Department)

“He started looking for the door pretty quick. I blocked him.”

Scarver added: “He ended up dead. I put his head down.”

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After beating Dahmer to death, he then went looking for Anderson who was serving a life sentence for murdering his wife.

“He [Anderson] stopped for a second and looked around,” Scarver remembered.

“He was looking to see if any officials were there. There were none. Pretty much the same thing [happened] – got his head put out.”

Scarver, who pleaded no contest to the murders, and is currently serving three life sentences in Colorado, doesn’t think it was an accident that he had been left alone with Dahmer, claiming prison officials had wanted him dead.

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“They had something to do with what took place," he said, adding that the guards had disappeared just before the attack.

Featured Image Credit: EUGENE GARCIA/AFP via Getty Images

Topics: Crime, Jeffrey Dahmer

Joe Yates
Joe Yates

Joe is a journalist for UNILAD, who particularly enjoys writing about crime. He has worked in journalism for five years, and has covered everything from murder trials to celeb news.

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